CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
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education is based upon the fundamental principles of ana- 
tomy and physiology of cattle, are being located in their 
several districts ; and that in carrying out these principles 
they are no less practical in their every-day proceedings than 
those individuals who profess to possess hereditary knowledge, 
and who put forth this figment as a claim for their being con- 
sulted in cases of disease affecting our flocks and herds in par- 
ticular. Such the College labours to attain, and such it hopes 
it has in a great measure succeeded in accomplishing. 
(Signed) Thomas Cator, Chairman. 
Lord Berners remarked, that in all cases of disease among 
the farmer’s live-stock, means of prevention would be found 
better than subsequent attempts at cure. He referred to 
several districts where disease prevailed to a great extent. 
In his own neighbourhood the remedies prescribed by 
Professor Simonds, and received from the Veterinary College, 
had been attended with almost uniform success. 
Mr. Slaney objected to the growing tendency among pro- 
fessional men to use technical words in describing symptoms 
and remedies, as well as words heterogeneously compounded 
from the Greek and Latin. He thought that in addressing 
farmers plain English should at least be given. 
Mr. Miles remarked, that his own flock of lambs, as well 
as that of his brother, had suffered loss to the amount of 
twenty per cent., from a sort of consumption. It commenced 
about the latter end of September, by the animal’s sneezing, 
and wasting away ; but invariably disappeared, even in the 
worst cases, as soon as the warm weather came. The heads 
of the sheep were found, after death, to contain two grubs in 
the upper part of the nostrils. 
Lord Berners had lost some of his best lambs by worms. — 
Farmer s Magazine . 
CATTLE PATHOLOGY. 
The Annual Report of the Veterinary College to the 
Council of the Royal Agricultural Society reminds us that 
as our live stock are being improved in breed, and forced 
forward to early maturity, their position is becoming the 
more artificial, requiring a greater amount of attention in 
household accommodation and feeding, while they are also 
becoming more liable to a certain class of diseases, when 
neglected. Hence the growing importance of pathology, 
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